Science

Watch This Robot Surgeon Play Operation (The Game) As Easily As It Could Sew Up Your Colon

This robot is wonderful. I’d let it sew me up, anytime.


April 22, 2011
Software

There Is An NFL 2011 iPad App With Live NFL Draft Streaming

With the annoying lockout of billionaires vs millionaires still raging on, this coming NFL season might not even happen! But one thing that is guaranteed to happen is the NFL Draft.


April 1, 2011
Gadgets

The Geekiest Way To Perfect Your Football Spiral

So you’re at the park, and you want to impress the sunbathing supermodels lying there, watching with gaping mouths as you prepare to launch your football into the air. But your spiral – it sucks. A geekier football might help.


March 26, 2011
Cameras

Notre Dame To Peer Into Quarterbacks’ Retinas With HelmetCam

At its first spring practice on Wednesday, the Fighting Irish coaching staff introduced the “HelmetCam”, a tiny camera that attaches to a player’s helmet – Notre Dame used it opposite potential starting quarterback Dayne Crist’s throwing arm – and records his every glance and decision.


February 9, 2011
Geek Out

US Navy Spent $US450,000 Flying F-18s Over Closed Dome Of Super Bowl

Everyone loves a great jet flyover! Except when you can’t see the jets, because you’re underneath a retractable dome. That’s retracted. Which is exactly what the Navy spent $US450,000 of American tax dollars to do on Sunday. [Washington Post]


February 8, 2011
Online

How Twitter Made This The Most Fun Super Bowl Yet

I mean, the game was pretty good. But the commercials could’ve been better and the halftime show almost destroyed my faith in humanity. But did you know why I had the most fun this Super Bowl? Twitter.


February 5, 2011
Computing

NFL Teams Want To Make The iPad Their Playbook Of The Future

If Vince Lombardi and Tom Landry still coached NFL teams, they’d probably scoff at the idea of using an iPad as their playbook, even if it saved a truckload of paper. Thankfully, today’s teams are more willing to embrace technology.


January 30, 2011
Cameras

Aaron Rodgers Broke A Photographer’s Monopod To Score A Touchdown

Scott Kelby, an excellent photographer, was taking pictures in the end zone during last week’s Packers game when Aaron Rodgers decided to run and dive in his direction. Rodgers scored a touchdown but accidentally broke Kelby’s $US350 monopod in the process.


January 29, 2011
Cameras

Ever Wonder What Mike Vick Sees On The Football Field?

Ever wonder what a quarterback really sees on a football field. Well the NFL offers up a taste of that, strapping a VHoldr ContourHD 1080p camera to Eagles quarterback Mike Vick’s helmet during Pro Bowl practice in Hawaii.


January 22, 2011
Cameras

How To Photograph Football

OK yeah, so you’re probably never going to get to shoot from the sidelines of a rugby game. But that doesn’t mean you can’t spice up the coverage of your kid’s PeeWee league game with these tips from Photoshelter.